Pasadena museum will rock you late night this Friday

Lapin's "Parallel Deliria Iteration," pmcaonline.org

Art museums have gone all nightclub this summer, and Friday night the Pasadena Museum of California Art will take a page from the Getty's musical, late-night Saturday series for a jam session of its own.  Rock Me on the Terrace, which wins points for staying open until midnight (Getty, think of all we could've done together after 9pm!) will feature Texas folkster Cydney Robinson, whose record "Spokesman for the Shoeless" credits turn-of-the-century musical acts in the Appalachian mountains as inspiration.  Following Robinson, you'll get an electronic set from Automatique and some country-western rock and roll courtesy of El Aye's Gypsy River Haunts.

The museum's current exhibits will also be open late into the night, including "Traffic!," a series of snapshots chronicling the disaster-level shortcomings of the L.A. freeway system from artist Benny Chan.  Annie Lapin's "Parallel Deliria Iteration," a three-dimensional installation that gives the impression a giant has picked up an art studio and dumped it all over the museum's floor, has to be seen to be believed.  Edith Heath's "Tabletop Modernist" showcases the work of a San Francisco potter.  All this and a breathtaking, rooftop view of the San Gabriel Mountains, a cash bar, and a venue for live music that doesn't post a bouncer at the door.  Entry is $7 (the one area in which "Rock Me" could use a little Getty-fication.)  The museum is located at 490 East Union Street, Pasadena, 91101.